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Demonstration of camera obscura. The original image gets rotated and reversed through a small hole onto an opposite surface. Niépce captured the scene with a camera obscura projected onto a 16.2 cm × 20.2 cm (6.4 in × 8.0 in) pewter plate thinly coated with bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt. [9]
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) [1] was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. [2] Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. [3]
English: Enhanced version by the Swiss Helmut Gersheim (1913–1995), performed ca. 1952, of Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin)View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France).
He's a former photographic process historian for the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film who teaches workshops in early photographic processes from Niepce heliographs ...
View from the Window at Le Gras, by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1826 or 1827, France - Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin After his return from London concentrated on making camera images, which, aware of their commercial potential, he ambiguously called “points de vue” in his letters to his brother.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:30, 25 March 2013: 2,100 × 1,806 (4.5 MB): Scewing {{Information |Description=300dpi scan of the first successful permanent photograph from nature. |Source=Harry Ransom Center's Gernsheim collection, The University of Texas at Austin |Date=Photo circa 1826.
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